When you think of Cherry, you think of the Cherry MX switch or the fruit. I’m talking about the former today, as the company behind the world’s most renowned mechanical switch tells me it’s in a ‘new era’ with its latest, the Cherry IK. Move aside, mechanical. Cherry IK are analogue induction switches and, speaking…
Attempts by the US government to put a cap on China’s development of AI technologies by limiting exports of GPUs has been a “failure”. So says no less an authority on the subject than Nvidia CEO, Jensen Huang. The New York Times quotes Huang at the ongoing Computex show in Taipei, Taiwan denouncing GPU export…
Category: Games May 21, 2025 Mastering Blades of Fire’s Combat System Antonela Pounder, Director of Digital Content and Engagement, 505 Games While MercurySteam’s latest action-adventure may look like a hack-and-slash on the surface, it’s anything but that! Blades of Fire has an incredibly unique combat system, one that is both challenging and incredibly rewarding. Today,…
You’ll remember, of course, the drift events in classic Need for Speed. During that noughties era when the games were soundtracked by crunk songs, told quasi-Fast and Furious tales, and reached Christmas number one in the charts with the certainty of an X Factor winner, NFS introduced drifting as a sort of side-show. There was…
“We wanted to take the series to the next level”. Nintendo has released a surprise ‘Ask the Developer‘ series on Mario Kart World ahead of its launch next month. The chat with the dev team is full of interesting revelations about the game itself, but one note in particular caught our eye right from the…
Releasing tomorrow (May 22nd) in Japan. A new collection of Darius minifigures is set to be released in Japanese stores tomorrow (Thursday, May 22nd), giving fans the chance to collect some of their favourite bosses from across Taito’s popular shoot ’em up series. The brand-new range is the work of Toys Cabin, a niche manufacturer…
If you care about your gaming performance, you need to care about best-in-class audio. Not only does having one of the best headsets mean you never miss a cue that another player is near you in an online game – the sound of footsteps around a corner, or suppressed gunfire from a fight you’re about…
Bones are cool, bones are fun—just make sure you pop them back when you’re done. Indeed, Jacob, one of our intrepid Computex 2025 reporters, took these words to heart when Havn let him play with their funky fake skull. The aforementioned metallic noggin’ is currently on display as part of their soon-to-be-released Doom special edition…
Need to Know What is it? A devilish deckbuilder with an inspired injection of tower defence.Release date May 21, 2025Expect to pay $25 / £21Developer Shiny ShoePublisher Big Fan GamesReviewed on Gigabyte G5, ASUS Rog AllySteam Deck VerifiedLink Official site I’ve been more hyped for this sequel than I am for the return of Christ….
Image 1 of 3 (Image credit: Future) Image 2 of 3 (Image credit: Future) Image 3 of 3 (Image credit: Future) I present to you the hoo-mamma of PC cases, the tube of Babel, El Capitan Lite, the ‘doubles as a cryochamber’, the Chonka 9000, the Compensator, the Pillar to Prometheus, the Modern Megalith, the…